. >> new york's governor andrew cuomo and members of new york's largely democratic delegation also slammed the house's failure to act, and so did one of new york's leading republican house members. >> he kept telling me wait until the vote is over, wait until the fiscal cliff vote is over and then everything will be taken care of. and then he was gone. and he wouldn't -- he refused to meet with us. he actually yelled at congressman lobiando, said i'm not meeting with you people. he wouldn't tell us why. he just decided to sneak off in the dark of night. >> by day's end, though, he was singing a different tune because the house speaker john boehner was promising a friday vote on at least part of the relief package and a speedy action on the rest of the relief package. still, a lot of people are really disgusted about how we got to this in the first place. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash has the very latest on that. so dana, point a to point b, it seemed like this was warp speed, from no action to some action to hopefully a lot more action. can you sort of walk me through the